Bunker Hill

The earliest inhabitants of the area we now know as Bunker Hill were the Peoria, Kickapoo and Winnebago Indians who roamed the prairies and had a grand camping ground near a large spring northeast of Bunker Hill. With the coming of the white settlers, the Native Americans gradually disappeared, and the last five wigwams were pulled down in 1826. In 1830, Elijah Lincoln became the first settler in the immediate vicinity, and being a man of great vision, he started a town and named it Lincoln.